we also have some "new york times"/cbs polls out that also show this race being pretty darn close. in colorado, mitt romney up by 1 percentage point. last month that was flipped. in virginia, they've got the president's lead actually growing slightly. he's up by five points there. i'm not sure about that. in wisconsin, the candidates are within the margin of error. after the president lost a point. chuck, again, they're your polls. and then we'll go to david to get his reaction. talk about it. what's your takeaway? >> well, i want to point out a couple things. number one, i feel like, look. we are at where we were before the conventions. when you really think about it. all of these numbers, right, you could sit there and say, you know, is the president narrowly ahead here? is romney narrowly ahead there? this is the conversation we were having about these swing states before both conventions. so it's almost as if everything has been erased, right? whatever bump the president got after the conventions combined with 47% and now the bump that romney got. it sort of annual neutralized